McDermott Will & Schulte, a global law firm

Adam counsels executors, trustees and beneficiaries in all aspects of estate and trust administration, including the preparation of federal estate tax returns and judicial and non-judicial trust accountings. He has also been involved in numerous estate and gift tax audit proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and has successfully obtained favorable private letter rulings for his clients on a range of income and transfer tax issues.

On international matters, Adam has advised multinational families on compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and counseled US-based clients participating in the IRS’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP).

Adam has spoken extensively on estate planning topics, including wealth transfer planning, gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax reporting, and exercising powers of appointment.

While in law school, Adam was a staff member of the Chicago Journal of International Law, in which he has his note (on the international legal status of drone operators) published in 2004.

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• Obtained a favorable IRS private letter ruling on the tax consequences of jointly held powers of appointment over a trust to be funded with over $100 million in assets
• Advised a group of individual trustees on the tax, fiduciary and regulatory issues related to the recapitalization of a private bank holding company
• Structured a $120 million net gift agreement to transfer a client’s investment assets to her grandchildren during the temporary repeal of the GST tax
• Designed a family settlement agreement to correct a prior erroneous transfer of $40 million of stock in a private family business from a trust and obtained a favorable private letter ruling on the tax consequences of the agreement

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